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• CMU ARPABET: HH EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English Hay.

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją, from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”). Cognate with West Frisian hea (“hay”), Alemannic German Heuw (“hay”), Cimbrian höobe (“hay”), Dutch hooi (“hay”), German Heu (“hay”), Luxembourgish Hee (“hay”), Mòcheno hei (“hay”), Yiddish היי (hey, “hay”), Danish hø (“hay”), Faroese hoyggj (“hay”), Gutnish hoy (“hay”), Icelandic hey (“hay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk høy (“hay”), Swedish hö (“hay”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi, “grass, hay”). More at hew.

From Middle English haye, heye, a conflation of Old English heġe (“hedge, fence”) and Old English ġehæġ (“an enclosed piece of land”).

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other letters such as kay and gay. The expected form in English if the h had survived in the Latin name of the letter "h", hā.

209 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hooi — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Albanian: sanë — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Amharic: ድርቆሽ (dərḳoš) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Arabic: تِبْن (tibn) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Arabic: جَفِيف (jafīf) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Arabic: حَشِيش (ḥašīš) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Arabic: دَرِيس (darīs) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Arabic: تبن (tebn) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Armenian: չոր խոտ (čʻor xot) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Assamese: খেৰ (kher) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Asturian: ḥenu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Azerbaijani: saman — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Bashkir: бесән (besən) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Basque: belar — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Basque: belar ondu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Belarusian: се́на (sjéna) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Bengali: খড় (khoṛ) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Central Bikol: uhot — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Breton: foenn — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Bulgarian: сено́ (senó) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Burmese: မြက်ခြောက် (mrakhkrauk) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Carpathian Rusyn: сїно (sjino) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Catalan: fenc — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Chechen: йол (jol) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Cherokee: ᎧᏁᏍᎦ (kanesga) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Cheyenne: moˀëˀėsṣe — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Chinese Mandarin: 乾草 /干草 (gāncǎo) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Ch'orti': ak takin — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Chuvash: утӑ (ut̬ă) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Coptic: ⲑⲟϩ (thoh) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Cora: ʌsá — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Cornish: gora — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Crimean Tatar: toban — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Czech: seno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Dalmatian: fin — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Danish: hø — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Dutch: hooi — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle Dutch: hoy — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle Dutch: hooy — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Elfdalian: ö — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Esperanto: fojno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Estonian: hein — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Evenki: орокто (orokto) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Faroese: hoyggj — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Finnish: heinä — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• French: foin — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• North Frisian: Fođer — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old Frisian: hā — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• West-Frisian: hea — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Friulian: fen — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Galician: feo — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Galician: feno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Galician: valume — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Galician: palla — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Georgian: თივა (tiva) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Georgian: ჩალა (čala) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• German: Heu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• German: Heuw — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle High German: höu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle High German: hou — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle High German: houwe — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle High German: höuwe — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old High German: hewi — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old High German: houwi — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Greek: άχυρο (áchyro) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Greek: σανός (sanós) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Greenlandic: ivikkat — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hawaiian: mauʻu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hebrew: חציר — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hebrew: שחת — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hebrew: מספוא — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hindi: सूखी घास (sūkhī ghās) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hindi: पुआल (puāl) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hindi: पराली (parālī) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Hungarian: széna — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Icelandic: hey — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Indonesian: rumput kering — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Interlingua: feno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Istriot: fen — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Italian: fieno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Japanese: 干草 (hoshikusa) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Kannada: ಹುಲ್ಲು (hullu) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Kashubian: sano — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Kazakh: пішен (pışen) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Kazakh: шөп (şöp) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Khmer: ចំបើង (cɑmbaəng) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Khmer: ស្មៅស្ងួត (smaw snguət) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Klallam: sx̣cáʔəy — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Klamath-Modoc: kson — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Korean: 건초 (geoncho) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Central Kurdish: پووش (pûş) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Northern Kurdish: pûş — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Kyrgyz: чөп (cöp) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Ladin: fën — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Lao: ເຟືອງ (fư̄ang) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Latgalian: sīns — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Latin: faenum — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Latvian: siens — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Latvian: gulta — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Limburgish: hooi — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Lithuanian: šienas — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Lombard: fen — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Low German: Hau — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle Low German: höü — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Luxembourgish: Hee — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Macedonian: сено (seno) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Malagasy: bozaka maina — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Malay: rumput kering — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Malayalam: വയ്ക്കോൽ (vaykkōl) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Malayalam: കച്ചിൽ (kaccil) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Māori: hei — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Marathi: गवत (gavat) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Manipuri: ꯍꯥꯌ꯫ (hāya.) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Middle English: hey — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Mòcheno: hei — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Mongolian: өвс (övs) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Nanai: паякта (pajakta) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Navajo: tłʼoh — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Nepali: पराल (parāl) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Norman: fain — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Norwegian Bokmål: høy — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Norwegian Nynorsk: høy — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Occitan: fen — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Ojibwe: mashkosiw (mashkosiw) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Church Slavic: сѣно (sěno) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Church Slavic: ⱄⱑⱀⱁ (sěno) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old East Slavic: сѣно (sěno) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old English: hīeġ — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old Galician-Portuguese: fẽo — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old Norse: hey — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Old Saxon: hōi — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Oromo: hookaa — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Pannonian Rusyn: шено (šeno) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Pennsylvania German: Hoi — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Persian: کاه (kâh) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Polabian: hai — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Polabian: śonü — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Polish: siano — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Portuguese: feno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Portuguese: relva — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Portuguese: forragem — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Romanian: fân — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Romansh: fain — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Russian: се́но (séno) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Northern Sami: suoidni — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Sardinian: fenu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Scottish Gaelic: feur — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Serbo-Croatian: се̑но — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Serbo-Croatian: сије̑но — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Serbo-Croatian: sȇno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Serbo-Croatian: sijȇno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Sicilian: frenu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Slovak: seno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Slovene: seno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Lower Sorbian: seno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Upper Sorbian: syno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Spanish: heno — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Swahili: majani makavu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Swahili: ukoko mkwavu — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Swedish: hö — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tagalog: ginikan — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tagalog: dayami — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tajik: қаҳ (qah) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tajik: коҳ (koh) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tajik: беда (beda) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tamil: வைக்கோல் (vaikkōl) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tatar: печән (peçän) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Telugu: ఎండు గడ్డి (eṇḍu gaḍḍi) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Thai: ฟาง (faang) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Tonkawa: ˀɛkwʌnɛsχʌw-yʌχʌn — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Turkish: saman — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Turkish: kuru ot — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Turkmen: bede — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Turkmen: saman — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Ukrainian: сі́но (síno) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Uyghur: سامان (saman) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Uyghur: خەس (xes) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Uzbek: pichan — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Uzbek: xashak — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Venetan: fjen — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Venetan: fen — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Vietnamese: cỏ khô — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Volapük: sigayeb — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Walloon: four — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Welsh: gwair — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Yiddish: היי (hey) — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Yoruba: koriko — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Zazaki: sımer — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Zazaki: vaso wusk — grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder
• Basque: belarra ondu — to cut green plants for fodder
• Bulgarian: кося и суша трева (kosja i suša treva) — to cut green plants for fodder
• Danish: slå hø — to cut green plants for fodder
• Dutch: hooien — to cut green plants for fodder
• Estonian: heina tegema — to cut green plants for fodder
• Finnish: tehdä heinää — to cut green plants for fodder
• Interlingua: preparar feno — to cut green plants for fodder
• Italian: far fieno — to cut green plants for fodder
• Lithuanian: šienauti — to cut green plants for fodder
• Polish: kosić siano — to cut green plants for fodder
• Portuguese: fenar — to cut green plants for fodder
• Romanian: cosi — to cut green plants for fodder
• Russian: собира́ть се́но (sobirátʹ séno) — to cut green plants for fodder
• Slovene: seno sušiti — to cut green plants for fodder
• Spanish: cortar heno — to cut green plants for fodder
• Vietnamese: cắt cỏ cho thú vật — to cut green plants for fodder
• Volapük: sigayebön — to cut green plants for fodder
• Zazaki: patil — to cut green plants for fodder
• Zazaki: palax — to cut green plants for fodder